Editing Louis Farrakhan (section)

===Hurricane Katrina===
In comments in 2005, Farrakhan stated that there was a {{convert|25|ft|m|adj=on}} hole under one of the key [[levee]]s that failed in [[New Orleans]] following [[Hurricane Katrina]]. He implied that the levee's destruction was a deliberate attempt to wipe out the population of the largely black sections within the city. Farrakhan later said that New Orleans Mayor [[Ray Nagin]] told him of the crater during a meeting in [[Dallas, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2197.shtml|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414182025/http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2197.shtml|url-status=dead|title=FinalCall.com News|archivedate=April 14, 2015|website=www.finalcall.com}}</ref>

Farrakhan further claimed that the fact the levee broke the day after Hurricane Katrina is proof that the destruction of the levee was not a natural occurrence. Farrakhan has raised additional questions and has called for federal investigations into the source of the levee break.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane929|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016003853/http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane929|url-status=dead|title=Blackamericaweb|archivedate=October 16, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackelectorate.com/print_article.asp?ID=1476|title=Politics Mondays: The Intentional Destruction of Levees in New Orleans – A Conspiracy Theory? Not in the Light of History|publisher=Blackelectorate.com|access-date=November 16, 2014}}</ref> He also asserted that the hurricane was "God's way of punishing America for its warmongering and racism".<ref name="CHHW">Michael Eric Dyson, ''Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster'' (2006), pp. 178–202. {{ISBN|0-465-01761-4}}.</ref>

Experts including the Independent Levee Investigation Team (ILIT) from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] have countered his accusations. The report from the ILIT said "The findings of this panel are that the over-topping of the levees by flood waters, the often sub-standard materials used to shore up the levees, and the age of the levees contributed to these [[Bridge scour|scour holes]] found at many of the sites of levee breaks after the hurricane."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/report/CH_7.pdf | title=Independent Levee Investigation Team Final Report – Chapter 7: The New Orleans East Protected Area | access-date=December 12, 2006 | author=Independent Levee Investigation Team at UC Berkeley | date=July 31, 2006 | publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] | pages=1–30 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906210816/http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/report/CH_7.pdf | archive-date=September 6, 2006 }}</ref>